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General Motors Could Be The World’s Largest Automaker In 2010
So who will be the world’s largest automaker this year? Like it or not, this is decided by numbers of units produced, size doesn’t matter. Some time in summer 2011, OICA will publish the official...
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World’s Largest Automaker 2012: Toyota Leads After 5 Laps
If the year would have ended on May 31st, Toyota would be the world’s largest automaker by a wide margin, followed by GM, and a distant third, Volkswagen. The year is not over until it’s over, but 5...
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World’s Largest Carmaker 2012: GM Could Overpower Toyota
It is a Japanese tradition. At this time of the month, all Japanese automakers provide their global results for the preceding month and the year. This month is no exception. Honda did set an all-time...
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Toyota Raises Bar To 10 Million Units, Too High For GM
Toyota has decided to increase global production this year by about 300,000 units, The Nikkei [sub] reports, as usual for the Nikkei without quoting sources. If this is true, then it would bring...
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World’s Largest Automaker: TTAC Up-Revises GM’s Year-End Estimate By 300,000...
Yesterday, we did one of our regular checks on the World’s Largest Automakers. Today, finally some good news for the GM camp: TTAC is up-revising its year-end projection for GM by some 300,000 units....
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Toyota Plans To Make More Than 10 Milllion Cars This Year
Toyota today published its revised production and sales plan for the calendar year 2012. The plan calls for slightly more than 10 million units produced globally by all Toyota Motor Corporation...
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Japan’s Automakers Continue Rebound, Toyota Unstoppable
Japan’s automakers released global production and sales data for July today. It is an ancient Japanese tradition, which is also shared by large European carmakers, but shunned by most American...
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Germany Media: Volkswagen Cuts Back. No Threat For GM
Volkswagen’s plans of sending GM to place three on the podium of the world’s largest automakers are most likely postponed. Volkswagen down-revised its 2012 sales plan by 300,000 units, heard...
View ArticleWorld’s Largest Automakers: Toyota Leads, But Will Slow Down Due To Japan,...
TTAC maintains its long-held forecast that Toyota will regain the title of world’s largest automaker by the end the year, with a combined group production of around 10 million units. This trend was...
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Toyota Won’t Break 10 Million Barrier This Year
Cratering China sales due to the islands row made Toyota revise its production targets. Worldwide production by the Toyota Group including Daihatsu and Hino “now looks likely to reach around 9.8...
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Japanese Make Up For China In America
A few weeks ago, Toyota’s CFO Satoshi Ozawa told an astounded press corps (and I paraphrase for brevity): “Sure, the riots in China have an effect, but we’ll make it up elsewhere in the world.” Today,...
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TTAC Declares (Knock On Wood) Toyota World’s Largest Automaker 2012
We have been saying it since May, but it took Bloomberg (along with the rest of the copypasting media) until a few days ago to realize that GM’s reign as the World’s Largest Automaker is coming to an...
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World’s Largest Automaker: Dethroned GM Concedes, TTAC Was Right
At the sidelines of the Detroit Motor Show, GM conceded what we had said all along: Toyota is the world’s largest Automaker again, with GM in #2, and – surprise – Volkswagen right behind GM. After...
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Volkswagen Can Be World’s Largest Automaker In 2013 – As Unlikely As It May...
As usual at this time of the month, Toyota released full month sales and production figures for the preceding month, and as usual in January, the numbers are for the full calendar year. Readers of...
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Toyota Plans For 11 Million In 2014
Toyota will make in the neighborhood of 10 million units this year, but plans on a big push for 2014 that will propel it way beyond the 10 million mark. A union official told Reuters “that Toyota...
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World’s Largest Automakers 2013: And They’re Off
Toyota released global sales and production numbers for January 2013 today. Toyota is making good on its plans to catch its breath after a breakneck race back to the top of the pile. Toyota said its...
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World’s Largest Carmakers 2013: Tight Race Could be Won By All Three
Toyota released global production numbers for the first quarter of 2013 today, which gives us a chance to officially initiate our 2013 tracking of the World’s Largest Automakers, based on hard data....
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World’s Largest Automakers 2013: No Change Seen By Year-End
TTAC continues its coverage of the race for World’s Largest Automaker. Last year, around this time, we did not do too badly with our guesstimate that Toyota would finish the year as #1, GM as #2, and...
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Truck Maker MAN Now Finally, Officially A Volkswagen Submissive. GM Won’t...
MAN is now officially part of the Volkswagen empire. MAN stockholders approved a profit and loss transfer agreement that “ends MAN’s autonomy,” as Automobilwoche [sub] reports. A bit kinkily, that...
View ArticleVolkswagen Surpasses Toyota in Global Auto Sales
Despite slowdowns in China, Russia and Asia, Volkswagen surpassed Toyota in global auto sales by delivery in the first half of 2015, Automotive News Europe is reporting. Volkswagen sold 5.04 million...
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